NICOLA Perrin didn’t have the best of days last Saturday at the Flavours Of Fingal Show until the late afternoon when she claimed the riding horse championship on partner Rob Jeffares’s Ballarin Baroness, winner of the preceding riding horse class ahead of Jennifer Kennedy and Assagart Angel.

The champion, a smart, athletic type who finished third in the four- and five-year-old small huner class at Balmoral in May, is by the popular OBOS Quality 004. She was bred in Co Offaly by Grainne Molloy out of the Flagmount Clover Diamond mare Susies Daughter who has no other progeny recorded on CapallOir.

The reserve champion as selected by judges Shane McKenna (conformation) and Alice Copithorne and Conor Higgins (ride) was the winning cob, Mrs Patamore, who is ridden and produced for owner Tony Purcell by Co Limerick-based Jodie Moran. The seven-year-old black heavyweight mare, who does a lot of trekking and hunting, won the cob championship at the Northern Ireland Festival on her debut and was having just her second start on Saturday.

Jennifer Kennedy was in the ribbons here again on the second-placed Moneycross, a four-year-old grey gelding by WRS Elvis who will be entered in the lightweight cob class at Dublin.

The five-year-old Gortfree Hero gelding Mountview Silver Fox is enjoying an excellent season and added to his list of victories here when landing the Irish Draught class under his Co Armagh owner Katie Crozier.

Qualified for the performance Irish Draught championship at Dublin by Gwen Scott, the grey was bred in Co Mayo by Noreen Tunney out of the Agherlow mare Silver Lack who has since produced colts in 2019 and 2020 and a filly last year – all by Gortfree Hero.

Grace Maxwell-Murphy finished second her on her five-year-old Cappa Cassanova gelding Gleann Rua Oscar Wilde who will also be aimed at Dublin.

Chloe Marks, from nearby Swords, partnered her own Killegar Mist to victory in the Connemara class in which there were only four starters. Bred in Co Wicklow by Jane Barry out of the Commanding Hero mare Rathmore Mist, the 15-year-old Ashfield Storm Cloud gelding is among the entries for today’s older flat Connemara qualifier at Tullylish.

Third in the earlier cob class, the Leonard Supple-ridden Reigning Cats And Cobs won the coloured horse class much to the delight of his owner Joanne Flaherty, a chef in Limerick City who keeps her eight-year-old gelding with Jodie Moran. Sidelined at present through injury, Flaherty rode the piebald to finish third at Boswell while Moran partnered him to finish second at Midleton and Mullingar.